Plane Crash Stopped by Mechanic
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- I have seen a lot of courageous moves but climbing from one plane to the next to save it is a crazy one for me.
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The lady was Gladys Ingle of the 13 Black Cats. The fourth woman to earn a pilot license (according to Wiki).
Ohhhh, thank you for the information. I first thought that this is Bessie Coleman.
Very interesting,
With all the camera angles I am guessing it was staged.
Even so, that was some amazing flying and one Brave woman.
Defines bravery.
Makes sense that she's a pilot. She was very careful of her weight shift going from the first plane to the second. Takes someone who actually understands how a plane flies to do this "safely."
even if it's staged it still happened without any less danger than if it weren't @@sailorstu
Great stuff! Two points of not much significance: 1) She was not wearing a parachute. 2) I actually met her. She was a friend of my grandmother. GI visited grandma in Tujunga, CA and a few times I was there when she came by.
The old time wingwalkers were absolutely insane.
Don't mention that to Tom Cruise. He'll want to do it on a Tomcat.
Kinda makes fighter pilots doing probe-and-drogue refueling look like amateurs
No safety standards back then. They made the Empire State building with no harnesses. I wonder how many workers fell hundreds of feet to their death.
For sure. Still, some weird part of me misses all the craziness from pioneering days, when people tried to figure out where the limits are. I dont mean the lack of safety aspect, but the inventiveness and just pure curiosity.
Eh... The maximum speed of the JN4D Jenny (as pictured) was only 75 mph under ideal conditions (and having a big 'ol draggy person standing on your wing is far from ideal).
Moving around on the wing or attaching the wheel isn't _too_ much more difficult than doing the same in the back of a pickup truck (which isn't _that_ difficult - the big difference is that the consequences for, say, dropping the wheel, are a lot more significant.
My Dad used to own and fly a Tiger Moth.. it is owned by an aircraft museum now.. I got to fly in it just after he passed away in 2007 .. it was an honour and a privilege.. the most elegant aircraft ever .. R.I.P. Dad 💜🙏🏼
Hi there , as a youngster in the then Rhodesia I was a learner glider pilot in a town called Bindura at the Bindura Gliding Club and our tow plane was a Tiger Moth , I flew in that more than a few times with our Tow Pilot Ray Smith and was lucky to do some aerobatics with him in that plane ... amazing times ...
Hi Kelsey, I hope all is well. I just wanted to let you know I have appreciated your content over the last 12 months. I know last year you let us know it was a struggle pushing content, in addition to your job. I hope all is okay on that end, but I certainly wanted to take a moment and thank you for producing the content you do. It is much appreciated!
Yeah what they said. I appreciate you also.
I didn't know that. Thanks. Good stuff.
Kelsey! The graphics in the video are top-notch! Not just the quality of the work, but the thought that went into their creation and placement was just so well done! I am so impressed- have been watching you for a long time and always pretty well understood the things you were describing, but this makes everything so clear now. Glad to see the channel continuing to improve …
"we are out of snacks sir"
Kelsy - "get me a sack and pull up next to that plane, Im going out on the wing"
No snacks! Pull the ejection seat!
Back in the 80's, I was a ground controller at RAF Wildernrath, and we needed to jump-start a C130 from another. We pulled the dead C130 out behind a fully serviceable aircraft. Unhooked and watched while the front pilot gave it full beans meanwhile, the rear windmilled until they had enough speed to fire the turbine. Worked a treat, they both taxied down for a close pair take off back to the UK.
Biplanes are designed different so the center of gravity has more stability in counter balance. I remember growing up and flying in my dad's Waco cabin series biplane, that old thing was a beast, and yet agile, and the stability was mind blowing especially for the years they built them
Yeah the reason biplanes got phased out was because of lighter materials so the extra wing wasn't needed. Biplanes are generally really heavy so it's likely this very petite woman wouldn't move the wings very much.
I was wondering about that.
I remember seeing one at an airshow with a landing gear mounted on the top.
The pilot landed upside down, parked it and walked away.
I wonder how he got back in.
@@sailorstu He probably would have called the mechanic woman
Yeah was gonna chime in that a biplane has superior roll stability.
@@sailorstu My thoughts too. The two wings increase stability making them less susceptible to dipping.
Love that you make time to post regularly,
My family farm was 5miles at the end of an operational runway training pilots then it became the race track the Gimli Glider "landed" on. I saw it (empty) after work. My brother flies a biplane ,he's certified on multiple engines as a mechanic/ engineer . We are truly addicted :) And i love your channel and this stunt ,& woman, is just mind blowing . So glad you chose it .
Kelsey, I can answer one thing question you posed about the wing-walking stunt to put a wheel back on a plane. In the days of the biplanes, there were aerobatics circuses that used to travel around the country. And with barn storming and other stunt flying, you'd see wing walkers. These were usually young ladies who'd climb out on the lower wings and do crazy things while the plane was flying. So it was a common enough thing that, yeah, the pilot probably had lots of hours practicing. I don't know how much they practiced for this film, but it would be something everyone involved would have had time under their belt doing.
The fact that it’s on video is why this is clearly a stunt. You know that cameras back then weren’t just on every airplane. It’s a stunt not a real mechanical problem.
@@Catpanl yeah, video and four planes in formation.
@@flysport_tedder not just video. film. film wasn't cheap. these days we forget that it used to cost hundreds of dollars per minute, inflation adjusted to make moving pictures
@@GigsVT And the cameras were large, heavy, highly specialized devices that only specialists could operate.
I figured it was a stunt when she did not climb into the rear cockpit prior to landing and just stood on the wing.
I've seen bi-planes and tri-planes do amazing things. I believe it was Sean Tucker who once "walked" a tri-plane nearly vertically from one end of the runway to the other. He would pick it up with that massive engine and put the tail down, nearly touching, before pulling it up and doing it repeatedly until he passed the whole grandstand in Reno. The plane acted like it was built to do that. They are amazingly stable and the fact that the man stood on the wing to land, even though there was a perfectly empty seat behind him, says a lot about how amazing they are.
Gladys performed this stunt regularly as part of a show in the 1920s and 30s. It’s a pretty good bet that the other pilots in this stunt group were WWI veterans with thousands of hours of flight time.
What’s really amazing about aviation is how little it’s changed in the last 50 years…. It’s actually sad. I love flying and hope we start to see more innovation and get back to the days where people were excited to fly.
Hasn't changed in 50 years? We went from bi planes that only fly for a min or two to massive jets holding 300+ passengers that can fly anywhere in the world not to mention drones and stealth technology autoflight ect only in 120 years
A few years ago, I had a 'flight experience' day in a Tiger Moth. One thing that really stood out was the effect of wind and difficulty of keeping level flight with constant adjustment. It was real seat of the pants stuff.
Heya Kelsey, the plane spotter you refer to in your 2nd clip is a UK You Tuber who live streams aviation and is a regular observer at Heathrow. His name is Jerry and his channel is "BigJetTv" and has a huge following. I was watching his channel yesterday (10 Dec 23) and at midday to 1pm local time he had around 6000 viewers and while live streaming there were 2 separate emergency incidents that happened at Heathrow on 27R. His knowledge of aviation is great as are his followers and he makes the stream enjoyable to watch with his 1 liner quirky comments like "Go on Son, get it down". Do check him out, but the clip you've highlighted is a few months old I think. I love the way you explain things too and wish you well with your content which I do enjoy watching too (and yes I've hit the like and subscribe too!😉). Keep smiling and the blue side up 👍🏼
BIG JET TV has some fun content and part of that is Jerry is very excitable. Often over playing the drama of a situation
@@Pooneil1984 absolutely agree with you on that one 👍🏼👍🏼 He's a great guy with sense of humour for good measure. Well worth the watch.😉
Enjoyable clearly wouldn’t be the word I’d use to describe this guy 😅
As a skydiver, I've climbed all over the wings and fuselage of various airplanes... For fun. Of course, I had a fully functional and checked sport skydiving rig on my back the whole time and I never landed with the airplane. What this person did, putting a tire on a plane in flight is well beyond anything I can do.
Jumped a few times.... the tools need to do this on a modern aircraft???? Yeah. No. 😂😂
Yes, she had a lot of practice. I think she transfered between aircraft at least 300 times in her wing walking career. The Black Cats performed this exact stunt at dozens of air shows across the country. Well rehearsed and practiced. Wish I could have seen it.
@@crissd8283 So it was a planned stunt, they had a setup to jettison the wheel?
@@murdo_mck Yes, the original wheel was designed to fall off for the show.
Have you ever sky dived directly into intercourse?
Omg, the feeling of riding on the wing of a biplane must've been amazing. Go Gladys! I can't believe I've never seen this before!
As I understand it, lift passes dead center between biplane wings. The center of gravity would also have to be dead center between the two wings, not on one wing more than the other. That would explain why she's on her knees, and crawling along the very edge, and only standing close to the cabin. She's staying below the center of gravity, or staying below where the lift current is strongest. She's not interrupting lift, so the plane stays in the air and remains level. Maybe the pilot had to adjust slightly for her weight too, but I'm not sure on that.
Airshows were different back then. These pilots would have been very experienced with people getting on/off the wing and moving around on it. Looking at these planes, It's strikes me how fast airplane technology advanced. Charles Lindberg lived to seem men on the moon, and 747s flying. A decade after the Wright brothers' first flight, the first bomber was built. 11 years after the first flight, the first scheduled airline was founded. About 15 years after the US started airmail service, and at about 35 years, the first jet was built. Crazy pace.
Aliens bro 👽
The first powered flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747
A friend of mine recently retired from flying A320s out of Hong Kong and was telling me about getting his private pilots licence. I laughed at him and questioned why. He just looked at me and told me that there is 'more stick and rudder' with the small planes. I thought back then it was a weird phrase. Now I know.
(My mate is now having a ball flying gliders of all things and is learning more about thermals and updrafts, all the stuff he avoided during his commercial piloting.)
One of the pilots at our microlight (Light-Sport) club turned up with his son-in-law a few weeks ago.The son-in-law was a 747 jockey.He was persuaded to fly a few circuits from the right seat. He flew the circuits ok, managed trim & flaps but couldn't (or wouldn't) land.
That was no ordinary plane spotter, that’s Big Jet TV, one of the best on TH-cam. I’m continually impressed by your videos. Thank you for keeping us thoroughly informed and entertained.
Yes, I was introduced to aviation by BigJet TV.
You misspelled "one of the most annoying and doesn't know when to shut up and let us focus on the actual planes"
Seriously. He just yells all the time.
@@chrisjfinlay Different tastes I guess. I find him quite entertaining.
A professional wing walker knows how to use their body to help control the aircraft
She used the turbulence from her body to slowly reduce the lift on the other planes wing, giving the other pilot time to react, then when she grabbed the spar she manually held the wings in position until she very slowly transferred her weight.
And when they landed , she leaned her body forward like an Olympic ski jumper to help provide some lift.
If you rewatch the video you'll see that at one point she is the "lead pilot" of both aircraft for a few seconds.
So in effect she’s being like a racing sidecar passenger - interesting side note: search IOM TT sidecar
@glennchartrand5411 - thanks for explaining in detail how the wing-walker, 13 Black Cat Pilot, Gladys Ingle was able to do this feat by what she could control with her body, aiding in accomplishing this safely for both planes, both pilots and herself.
@@regularguy3665 Another good analogy is she's doing the same things a sky diver does .
She's the one maneuvering the wing she is on and she also uses the turbulence from her body to maneuver the other wing down to her.
It's THREE pilots working together.
Her transference of weight is meticulous. Hence very little movement of the roll axis of each aircraft. She's a real pro.
Good morning Kelsey! Thanks for the mini physics lesson with the first video. That was wild. And they changed the tire so effortlessly.
You wanna keep your skills sharp Kelsey?
Keep flying general aviation planes in your free time.
And do a basic aerobatics course too.
Love your channel.
"Rosie the riveter...the early years. " I love the history aviation videos!
My Dad was an Air Force Pilot and flew the F4D in Vietnam. He later had the pleasure of flyer a Cetabria for pleasure. Some of my best memories are when he took me up and did aerobatics over the Chesapeake Bay.
BTW, bi-planes are amazingly controllable planes. I've photographed bi-plane stunt pilots in the past, and they can do incredible things. I photographed while a guy stalled the plane, did a freefall for hundreds of feet, and recover like it was no big deal. The pilot told me it is because of the ratio of wing surface area to weight of the plane.
Kesley. last week in GRU we had a similar setup as the history you said in this video about the a A380 and your 17 seat turboprop.
The EK A380 had just landed in 10R and was followed by an Passaredo ATR-72, both cleared the runway at CC and the controller cleared both to cross 10L into parking.
The ATR pilot response (in portuguese) was something like: "We're gonna wait for a little bit, if the big guy accelerate we'll be back airborn in no time"
"Just mechanics doing mechanic stuff."
Signed A Mechanic
Sure bud.
“Stunt woman”
Ya, she was a wing walker and made her living performing stunts for crowds. She performed this exact same stunt dozens of times across the country. Wish I could have seen it.
If you find yourself near Dulles Airport between May and October, there's a Flying Circus aerodrome at Bealton, VA. Wing Walking is just one of the events. You can also get rides in a Piper Cub, or one of the half-dozen or so biplanes. Aerobatic rides are also available; IIRC we did a Barrel Roll, a Loop, a pair of Snap Rolls, a Cuban 8 and a Split "S."
My thought is that such a line up is at least a bit dangerous. "Sandblasted" is fairly accurate imo, there's considerable risk of damaging some of the smaller stuff on the MY A350, for instance all the data probes exposed to the air etc, could take a grain of sand or other FOD by sheer dumb luck and get themselves into trouble. Also damaging the paint is possible, which would cost a lot of money to fix (if not causing danger as such). I imagine maintenance and execs were both very displeased to see that footage
I can just imagine if there had been a change in wind direction and the runway had just opened up. There may have been maintenance vehicles depositing debris on the runway. However, on a regularly used runway at Heathrow, I doubt there would be much sand and a single grain of sand probably wouldn't affect the pitot/static system. Pitot/static sensors usually have places to catch water and other small contaminants, if they hadn't already fallen through the drain holes in the probes themselves.
I don't think the passengers would be happy though, with the buffeting and also with the jet fumes being sucked into the cabin.
I expect they were practising at the time and filming so they could send out a bit of footage with information on when the air show would be in such and such a town The movie theater would love to run promos with good footage. Usually they just had a static billboard type ad saying buy bleach x for cleaner whiter clothes. In the old days they did not run previews, they ran ads before the movie. I think whoever put the wheel on that fell off was unhappy, but the execs were thrilled.
I was thinking that the heat from the engineblast could damage the cockpitwindows, like melting glue or composites.
@@Dirk-van-den-Berg at that distance, there would be no heat worth mentioning. Even at half the distance. Most of the air volume coming out of the engine ist cold air mixed into the exhaust of the combustion stage anyway.
@@Dirk-van-den-Berg With high bypass engines, you have a lot of cold air coming from the "fan" mixing with the heat from the engine core. I doubt there would be much heat at that range. Even on an older GE CF6-powered aircraft you have a cold/hot mix of 5 :1
If you’re interested, Glenn Martin and parachute jumper Tiny Broadwick would make a fascinating video. She started out at age 15 parachuting from hot-air balloons at fairs in 1908 and ended up parachuting from Glenn Martin’s plane when he was a barnstormer. She was the first person to demonstrate parachuting to the U.S. Army, in 1914, to show that providing parachutes could save pilots’ lives. She’s credited with inventing the ripcord, when during one of the Army jumps, her static line (I hope I’m phrasing this correctly) got tangled in the tail of the plane and she had to cut herself loose. The pilot for those jumps was Lt. Walter Taliaferro, if I remember correctly. (Pronounced Tolliver.) Tiny was from Henderson, NC, and lived into her 80s, unlike many parachutists of those days. I think she was an amazing woman!
I got a ride in a WWII biplane a number of years ago, and the pilot (who was an Air Canada pilot that did this for fun) let me take the stick for a minute or two (I’m 100% sure his hand was a millimetre away at all times haha). The thing felt super responsive and turned on a dime. We flew around a hilly escarpment area in the fall and it was slow and gorgeous. I’ll never forget it. Thankfully, we landed with all the parts we took off with.
At Rockcliffe?
@@dewiz9596 No, Edenvale. :)
The barnstormers flew by the seat of their pants. The Power to Weight Ratio back then was really lousy, but they had plenty of lift in those bi-planes. And you can see the control surface corrections when she moves from one plane to the other, 74 Gear. It's really a smooth piece of flying. But, like I said, they had the advantage of plenty of lift. I had never seen this stunt clip before. It was MAGNIFICENT! Thanks for sharing! 👍
It is great to listen to the enthusiastic way you share your knowledge and experience.
Always enjoy your videos!
From a fellow Kelsey, with far less aviation skills.
By the way, I was on a MEA 737 flying from Rome into Beirut the day the Lebanese Civil War blew up into a full on shooting war. As we began to land on the runway, the Druze Militia began firing what I think were 105 Howlitzer rounds from their vantage point on the adjacent mountain side. Only seconds after we touched down they scored a hit in front of the plane and the starboard gear was ripped off. In an incredible display of skill, our pilot crabbed a bit into the prevailing wind keeping what was left of the gear, from impacting and digging into the runway: at the last moment, with the ground speed about to run out, he dropped the wing, the gear stub spiked into the runway, and we spun around as if he had 'dropped anchor' and came to full rest. We were immediately surrounded and evacuated from the plane and escorted by armed members of the Christian faction to a waiting protective wired enclosure, while I, and others , awaited the arrival of an emergency replacement (also a 737) to continue on to Amman, Jordan. One hell of a pilot, is all I have to say (I was also a pilot). Two humorous stories- while in the enclosure I was approached by a 7 or 8 year old boy who wanted to sell me a brick of Hashish:), AND, talk about a small world, my name, which NO one on the plane knew, was suddenly called out by a voice I knew but which I couldn't immediately place. As I scanned the area, I spied a young Christian Militia Major waving vigorously at me from the outside of the enclosure. Upon seeing his face, I immediately smiled and waved back, followed his motions towards the exit, and embraced him warmly as we had both taken the same Airborne training class at Ft. Bragg some years before:) This was some 50 years ago and , "Life's inexplicable coincidences" have never ceased to amaze me.)
Another interesting, informative video. I always look forward to seeing your analysis of all types of flight. Thanks Kelsey. KTBSU
Thank You very much for making this video 74 Gear. It's an honor to see your video and it's very interesting. Would it be ok for you to make another pilot vlog videos?
Interesting - and beautifully edited as always. Thank you for continuing to make videos
That's amazing that only 100 years ago , those planes were cutting edge progress.
Today, people complain that the seat doesn't go back enough.
That's the downside of having the general public involved in anything at all. They don't understand (because they choose not to) just how much goes into building a plane and how much goes into making sure it's fit for passenger services. The seat not going back enough is also a, possibly intentional but probably unintentional, way that the engineers force people to be a bit considerate to the person behind them.
Jerry from BigJet TV. You could call him a professional plane spotter. He has a lot of experience spotting at Heathrow and other airports and an aviation background from his father. He streams on his channel on youtube at about once a week plus more times for members or when there is some interesting weather at Heathrow. His commentary on the streams is what makes it 10× more interesting 😅. You have to look it up. My favourite video of his is a compilation video he made of a more than 5h long stream during storm Ciara a couple of years back. I still watch this video when im a bit down and it does its magic every time
I am pretty sure her name is Gladys Ingle.
Yes! She lived to 82 years! She was a member of the 13 Black Cats areal stunt team!
Did all y’all know that on 11 June 1912, 24-year old Silas Christofferson took off in a Curtiss pusher from the roof of the 12-story Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon, flew for 12 minutes, then landed at Fort Vancouver, on the Washington side of the Columbia River?
And what is even more amazing is that in 16 September 1995 the FAA allowed pilot Tom Murphy to reenact Silas Christofferson’s 1912 flight, this time leading at Pearson Field Airport, very near where the 1912 flight landed. I was fortunate to see the hotel roof take off reenactment in 1995.
Holy moly, my fear of heights was in full panic mode while watching the first video! I just cannot understand how some people can do that kind of thing. And no safety equipment that I could see!
Kelsey some of those barnstormers who flew their air shows from one town to the other had thousands of hours of airtime, if not more. Many were former WWI pilots who still loved flying and made a living doing air hsows.
Those Jennys they flew in that vvideo were surplus trainers and the government sold them off for a dime on the dollar. They were no longer needed and obsolete, cheap to maintain and easy to fly.
Many were sold the military pilots who flew them.
My maternal grandfather was one of those guys, not a pilot but a mechanic for the famed 94th Aero Squadron in WWI (Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker's squadron) and made a living for a while with a flying circus until the Great Depression.
I have a picture taken of my grandparents with my mother being held by Capt. Rickenbacker when he was one of his visits to Cleveland for the National Air Races. it was taken in 1934 if I remember correctly when she was five years old.
What a cool family story!
Well I knew they were surplus Jennys.. Jimmy Stewart told me. In case the joke needs explaining see "The Spirit of Saint Louis" (1957). I could be wrong but it is my recollection near the beginning of the film Stewart as Charles Lindburg purchased a surplus Jenny.
Hi Kelsey. The person you referred to as a 'plane spotter' in your video, is none other than our very own, in the UK, Jerry Dwyer. He has his own channel called Bigjet TV which is subscribed to by 378k people. Jerry can be knowledgeable and also talk utter crap but I find him entertaining and his heart is in the right place.
My concern would not be that my A350 would be tipped over by the A320. My concern and why I find this "strange behavior" from the Malaysian crew is possible FOD that could be thrown towards my aircraft
Came here to write exactly this. The fod shower behind the BA spooling up would be my main concern.
How much FOD could there really be with plane after plane taking off?
@@markgallagher1376 You don't need a lot, remember that velocity of the FOD could be significant, and in managing risk that is a question you don't want to test out sitting on the start of a 10+ hour flight. Leave that to either engineers, or better yet, a YT comment stream.
@@markgallagher1376 Probably a very low risk unless the previous aircraft lost a part or threw FOD onto the runway during takeoff. But there is no reason to take this risk.
@@ahooogerhuis don’t judge. You are also part of the YT comment stream.
I think it’s pretty obvious the concern wasn’t that the A350 would be flipped over. The concern with being lined up that close to a departing jet would be FOD, and I think that’s a totally valid concern in this particular instance.
Congrats on being upped to captain 🎉🎉🎉🎉 super proud of you man!!!!
Did I miss something? He’s not wearing captains stripes (4)….first officers wear 3 stripes and that’s what he wears
@@Pointlesschan I just know people man that’s why he hasn’t uploaded in a while
When my dad was dating my mother, ca. 1930, he told me stores of his flying adventures, including his yearly air show experiences. He owned a biplane, I think it was a WACO, flying it out of a field across the road from the farm. Whenever the show came to town he joined in the fun. He had his commercial ticket so he made a couple of bucks taking passengers on rides. He also took a lady parachutist up for her performances. Now according to dad, this woman was very pretty, and my future mom got very jealous, having a fit every time. Dad never got tired of telling me the story with a hearty chuckle, of course only when mom wasn't around. I never knew her name. The young lady in the film appears to be very attractive so maybe it was her.
I don't think he ever took a wing walker up though.
-dave
That proves that staging videos started long before the Internet.
anybody else get mad goosebumps from seeing a klm 747 unexpectedly ? Kelsey love your content you are awesome, i really enjoy your stuff.
Kelsy you are correct in your physics and comments, except you are too young to remember barnstommers who flew in a group of 4-6 planes and put on stunt bi wing air shows in the 30's and 40's full time for a living. They went from town to town, It was like going to the circus, the high wire acts and trapese were unbelievable. My grandfather became a pilot in the late 1920's. In the early 1950's he took me to one of the last old time air shows, in Chicago. I was 8 or 9 yrs old but I remember, They had a plane with 6 girls 3 near the cockpit on each side when it took off they were trained acrobats. then all 6 of them were at the outer end of lower wing. Their show ended with all 6 of the girls in the center of top wing and side by side with each one with an arm around the next girl, they then did a dance where you all together stand on one leg and swing the other straight out and then switch legs. The other act I remember most is they had 5 planes side by side and a guy in end plane got out of second seat and walked all the way across all 5 planes. When I asked gramps if he could do that he said no. He had a modern plane with single wings made out of metal. The old planes were wood and for a stunt plane it had extra wood in certain places where the circus people would do their tricks, then the wings were covered in a special strong cloth that did not strech and for trick planes they put sand or something in the paint so it was not slippery and the circus people had special rubber on their shoe or boot bottoms. He then said but the bi-wing planes could fly very very slow which new ones could not. He then let me turn the ingition on and he spun the prop by hand to start it and he took me for a ride to look down at all of Chicago, in his modern 1952 whatever. I think the reason these planes could maneuver like that is the double amount of wing surface and they were usually flying less than 30mph. Thank you for the memories.
Honestly, the fall wouldn’t scare me as much as having my back to that whirling disk of instant death. Amazing tire replacement video.
To me it looked like that guy wasn't just stepping from one plane to the other at once. Instead he was gradually moving his weight from one plane to the other first by pulling himself up with his arms and later by pushing himself up with his knee. I think that helped a lot for the pilots to keep their wings level.
*She, *her, It was a lady doing the stunt.
Kelsey, I don’t know if somebody else commented on this or not. If you watch the top wing, when the person is getting on the plane wing from the other plane, you can see the left aileron deflecting down on the top wing. That biplane only has ailerons on the upper wing.
Aviation has certainly come a long way, but some of the old plane designs still hold up. The B-52 and C-130 are both older than I am, and both are still in service. I know they've been upgraded over the decades, but apparently the basic design was solid. Same thing with the 1911 .45ACP. That basic pistol design is still as serviceable as ever.
Hi Kelsey.
Amazing!!
For UK watchers, we are seeing a wheel + tyre being fitted here, as opposed to just a tyre (the rubber bit).
Now that's a real air borne mechanic ! Gladys Ingle was one heck of an aviator.
I was a structural technician in the Air Force. In class we used to joke around who would get to be an "in flight" structural technician.
Kelsey, great video as usual! Please bring back your old intro theme with the music and, “Hello 74 crew! I,m Kelsey…”
That was a well-rehearsed stunt by Gladys Ingle, the only female member of the 13 Black Cats. She lived to age 82.
I learned to fly at Hunter Field in S.Illinois. It was named after the Hunter Brothers who set world a record in 1930 for spending 553 hours in the air without landing. Their methods for refueling and regular maintenance during that effort were very similar to this tire change. The films of their effort are amazing. Check them out.
I remember when they would pump your gas and wash your windows. Service was just so much better back in the day,
Well for a long time you had the choice of self-service or full-service, and the market clearly spoke since most people chose to save the 20 cents per gallon and pump it themselves.
The main reason why full-service used to be common was because back in the days, oil needed to be changed more often, and often topped up. So the full service included checking the oil, since that was critical vehicle monitoring. As cars and oil filters got better, the need to check oil frequently disappeared.
In Thailand, due to safety regulations, they "pump the gas" at every filling station.
@@maifantasia3650 That’s how it was in a handful of US states until very recently. When I was at university, I remember us all (lovingly) making fun of our fellow student from New Jersey, because he didn’t know how to pump gas! (Since New Jersey was one of those states that mandated full service.)
Crazy part, she remained standing during landing.
Plane to plane transfers were common for the barnstormers. This wasn't the first transfer for either pilot, they were ready for and adjusted for the weight transfer.
What slays me is that she lands while standing on the wing rather than getting into the back seat behind the pilot
Boeing 747 forever
I've seen this video before and I've always thought this must have all been pre-planned since there are so many camera angles (from each plane, when strapping the tire to the mechanic on the ground, the landing of the repaired airplane). It doesn't negate the bravery needed to transfer from one plane to another mid-flight.
These pilot were obviously very experienced and, at a guess, had practiced something similar before this stunt was filmed, and practiced A LOT! The aileron and rudder control of BOTH pilots is exquisite, to put it mildly (this is a genuine stunt, no computer graphic fakery available at the time)!
Then again, genuine "stick-and-rudder" proficiency probably was by far the most important skill in these days, very little need for "systems and procedures" proficiency at the time.
She's got bigger balls than me, absolutely stunning courage and dexterity - not only would the fall kill her, but the prop was pretty close. Imagine the noise and air velocity almost behind the prop 😯
Oh, in the second clip was done by BigJet tv. They’re not a normal aircraft spotter but one of the best on TH-cam. They actually got me interested in aviation.
The funny thing is that I actually watched it live when it happened and the whole chat went crazy because it’s so unusual. We’d never seen anything like it. And we were a bit concerned about the jet blast when the BA plane potentially damaging the other one, or FOD intake ect.
But to be fair Jerry is a bit excitable at the best of times. But our hearts were in the right place-we worried for the Malaysian aircraft and were happy to see it takeoff safely a few minutes later.
BigJet is way more than a plane spotter. His channel is responsible for some of the best videos of bad weather landings. He has a great relationship with many of the property owners around Heathrow so can get some great locations.
I miss working airside at Heathrow.
You mention how much aviation has changed in 100 years, I think back to my maternal grandmother who was born in the late 1800s and lived long enough to see Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon. There weren't television sets when she was a child, and all the technology changes she saw as time went by, I often wonder just what she honestly thought about it. Her watching Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon, on her television set... and that was all just fantasy when she was a child.
Those barnstormers of the 1920s-30s had a lot of mad skills that they got from combat flying and hundreds of hours of barnstorming. And the wingwalker was trained. It looked like she transferred her weight gradually, giving the pilots a second or two to adjust. The fact they made the transfer without comms is remarkable.
Notice when transferring wings she doesn't lift herself up right away. She keeps one foot on the original aircraft for a few seconds.
This is to let the new plane lift her, rather than transferring her weight onto it all at once.
Kelsey, That wing walker video is hysterical. It is obvious that it is filmed in a studio of some kind as there is no wind resistance showing in her hair or clothes. So i GUESS THEY WERE FLYING SO SLOW THAT THERE IS NO AIR FLOW????? Great for laughs. Keep em coming. I love your videos.
Jerry of Big Jet TV is no mere plane spotter. He is a legend in these parts.
Few do more to connect operations to the general public in the UK. It doesn't work without 1,001 other people and processes at the top of their game and he seems to want to capture it all. Sure, it's often not exciting but you know why that's a really good thing - I wouldn't wish an interesting life on anybody connected to aviation.
Crews from many huts know him and look out for him with fondness. They probably also secretly fear him too, he's judging them and won't spare his excitement if they make a daft choice (e.g. entering the r/w as no 2, with the lead not rolling) or nature has its way. Even the USAF have brought him onto their flight line and the RAF give a wiggle wave as they taxi by as a salute.
So next time you're established 27L at EGLL, make it a good one.
here's a hint. On the transfer the wheel less pilot LIFTS with right stick and stays aft, while mechanic's carrier noses down slightly while giving slight right stick.
This is not a mechanic heroically preventing a crash, this is Gladys Ingle, a stuntwoman. Part of her show was a wheel would conveniently fall off of an airplane, and she would make a big show of changing the wheel.
Doesn't take away from the badassery of it, but it is a completely planned and practiced stunt.
Thank you for pointing out the skill of the pilots in this particular maneuver.
One small detail. As Gladys is transferring from one airplane to the other, she gradually shifted her weight from one plane to the other side of the pilots would be able to control their planes. These people are not only skilled, but professional team players.
There have been 2 stories about airplanes loosing a wheel right after start on pilot channels like this one.
They could have really used the help of this woman.
@74 Gear Kelsey, In that scenario at Heathrow, usually the controllers would provide a conditional line up instruction "MAS1, behind the departing BA A320, line up (and wait) Runway 27R, behind". Also, Heathrow tend to use intersection departures quite a lot (during visible conditions) to maximise runway utilisation, but the controller must ensure the pilots readback the full conditional instruction, so they are fully aware of preceding aircraft
Love those vintage recordings. Old timey pilots were pioneers of aviation. They knew their airframe.
It looks like she actually slowly transfers her weight over a few seconds giving the pilot a chance to adjust. As she puts her full weight the pilot over corrects and the plane banks. They’ve definitely practiced this many times.
As the mechanic is climbing onto the bottom wing, the CoG is quite low compared to the CoM, so the angular correction is far less than you might expect.
The mechanic leaving the top wing of other aircraft creates more wobble, but this is also desired movement, and it results in movement away from the other aircraft.
I know it's been a while since you got number 4, but I still get a laugh at the fact that I can now gauge how old the video is by the bar count on your epaulettes...
When you rely upon safety measures, instincts are lost.
No parachute or safety tether,mucho courage, My wife's grandfather read of the first flight at Kittyhawk in the news and watched the moon landing on tv, living through the greatest time of aviation.
I think there's contact between the wings of the planes. The one the stuntman is dismounting tips up as the person gets off and pushes on the bottom of the left wing of the plane that's going to have tire changed. It might be this contact has actually helped to negate the extra weight introduced to the wing
Those wing walkers of old were either brave or nuts, but whichever they were highly skilled at doing their stunts.
The pilots were good at keeping the planes straight & level and practised this sort of thing regularly.
"So, what did you do at work today, dear." ... "Not much - had a RUSH order for a tyre change ... not much else." 🤣 The way she transferred her weight slowly accounts for the minimal wing-waggle (imo). This certainly looks like a well-rehearsed (or planned, at least) stunt with cameras standing by. Still and awesome feat of bravery.
It looks like the upper plane sees she is holding on, then banks right to lift her, rather than her climbing up. The lower plane has a small wing rise as the weight lifts, then dives gently to make space without having to bank right, which would move them closer.
It was a well choreographed maneuver, and, like a good magician, the move isn't easy, but the person doing it makes it look easy.
Kelsey! You've gotta fly a biplane! They're so slow and you're out there with the air. It's such a different experience to a jet. Go get tailwheel in a biplane!
Also, when aircraft were new, we didn't have beautiful grooved tarmac runways back then, pilots would land in a field, in the town's oval etc. So they always landed into wind, no crosswind at all. This means two things - back in the day a greaser was easier, but these days biplanes are quite often terrible at handling even 10kts cross, which is why they ground loop.
But seriously, go fly a biplane. A Tiger Moth or seeing as you're a Boeing guy then grab a Stearman.
Wing walking stunts were standard fate in flying circuses back then.
Note that the big plane got turned down the runway, before the lead smaller plane started throttling up. It carefully wasn't at right angles.
She moved from one plane to the next slowly, giving both pilots time to compensate for the shift in weight.
My grandmother was alive for both the Wright brother’s first flight and men landing on the Moon. Also the Wright Brother’s first flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747.
So much in so little time.
Crazy
You thought how funny it is watching the biplane and then getting into the 767.....It's amazing to me that it was only 78 years from the Wright Brothers flight to the 1st space shuttle, AND we had already been to the moon 12 years before that!
Editor: nice graphics
Kelsey: great content (as usual!).
you gonna make me emotional here man....wow thats courage